Rabiatul Adawiyah Nasir

A Preliminary Study of Tourist Friendly Destination Concept in CityTourism

Tourist friendly destination is a growing concept applicable to many tourism sectors, which aim to satisfy the needs and demands of domestic as well as international tourists. In the city tourism, recent practices have shown that tourism providers have given emphasis to the general provision of physical facilities compared to the facilities and services that meet and satisfies the tourists’ needs. Previous studies have also focused on the positioning, image, and branding of tourism destination, thus, making the tourist friendly destination concept untapped. Therefore, this article aims to develop a preliminary concept of tourist friendly destination from domestic tourist’s perspective. A total of 30 respondents chose the purposive sampling method in Kuala Lumpur. The results of the study showed that the level of attributes was “important” and “very important” to overall mean value range 3.09 to 4.63. This study contributes to the tourism providers and planners in developing city tourism towards tourist friendly destination concept.

Perceived and Measured Adaptive Thermal Comfort at an Outdoor Shaded Recreational Area in Malaysia

Psychological adaptation towards environmental ergonomic is important to encourage better usage of outdoor space. Green space is a significant aspect as it is beneficial for the community. Outdoor spaces are supposedly an essential component of urban recreation space that provides opportunities for recreational activities. Human responses to the outdoor environment and actual thermal sensation experienced by individuals are important to determine the people’s level of understanding of the condition. This paper explores people’s perception about the microclimate condition in hot and humid climate. The responses of the respondents are correlated with the measurement of the microclimate condition. The microclimate conditions of the urban recreational area are measured to get the actual sensation of thermal experience of the people. The results confirmed the existence of adaptive thermal comfort amongst the respondents where they perceived better microclimatic conditions compared to what were measured.

Diurnal microclimate variations in tropical rainforest: Case study of Kuala Tahan, Pahang

Forest plays an important role in maintaining the environmental quality and the ecological balance of their surrounding areas. Therefore, understanding the effects of tropical rainforest destruction and fragmentation on the microclimate is critically needed. National Park, Pahang is one of the oldest tropical rainforest where the surrounding areas are facing critical threats due to tourism activities and infrastructure development. Solar radiation (I), air temperature (Ta), relative humidity (h), wind speed (v) and rainfall were measured at six different locations under the forest canopy, built-up area, trail, campsite, fragmented forest and village area. All the microclimate variables show significant differences at the measured locations. These results further the understanding of the responses to forest fragmentation in the tropical forests created by human activities, and provide a useful basis for evaluating the implications of forest management practices.